Lead Site Reliability Engineer, HPC Data Facility

Jefferson Lab; Newport News (VA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Care Plans

401(k) Plan – 9% Lab Contribution; 100

Flexible Work Arrangements

Remote & Alternate Work Schedules

Job summary

Jefferson Lab seeks a Lead Site Reliability Engineer for the High Performance Data Facility (HPDF) team in Virginia. You will supervise a small SRE group, design and build reliable systems, and own incident response and monitoring for a greenfield facility.

You’ll define SLOs/SLIs, manage on-call and change processes, and collaborate with architecture and Berkeley Lab to influence technology choices. 10+ years in SRE/DevOps and strong automation skills are required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in SRE/DevOps or related operations engineering.
• Experience leading or supervising engineers for multiple projects.
• Strong expertise in monitoring, observability stacks, and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and operation of monitoring and diagnostic tooling for HPDF systems.
• Supervise and mentor a small team of site reliability engineers.
• Establish on-call, escalation, change management, and maintenance processes.
• Design resilience, disaster recovery, and SLO/SLI reporting for a distributed facility.
• Act as incident commander and drive postmortems and preventive improvements.
• Drive reliability improvements through automation using Python, Go, or shell.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Technical Leadership

Python

Go

Shell scripting

Incident Response

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Ansible

Terraform

Puppet

Public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Job description

Jefferson Lab seeks a Lead Site Reliability Engineer for the High Performance Data Facility (HPDF) team in Virginia. You will supervise a small SRE group, design and build reliable systems, and own incident response and monitoring for a greenfield facility.

You’ll define SLOs/SLIs, manage on-call and change processes, and collaborate with architecture and Berkeley Lab to influence technology choices. 10+ years in SRE/DevOps and strong automation skills are required.